Nature has given man no better thing than shortness of life.
PLINY THE ELDERMost men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
More Pliny the Elder Quotes
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It [the earth] alone remains immoveable, whilst all things revolve round it.
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Wine maketh the band quivering, the eye watery, the night unquiet, lewd dreams, a stinking breath in the morning, and an utter forgetfulness of all things.
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I think it is the most beautiful and humane thing in the world, so to mingle gravity with pleasure that the one may not sink into melancholy, nor the other rise up into wantonness.
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A short death is the sovereign good hap of human life.
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Why is it that we entertain the belief that for every purpose odd numbers are the most effectual?
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We ought to be guarded against every appearance of envy, as a passion that always implies inferiority wherever it resides.
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Why do we believe that in all matters the odd numbers are more powerful?
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It is generally much more shameful to lose a good reputation than never to have acquired it.
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Chance is a second master.
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Amid the sufferings of life on earth, suicide is God’s best gift to man.
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The brain is the highest of the organs in position, and it is protected by the vault of the head; it has no flesh or blood or refuse. It is the citadel of sense-perception.
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We live by reposing trust in each other.
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Most men are afraid of a bad name, but few fear their consciences.
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I would have a man generous to his country, his neighbors, his kindred, his friends, and most of all his poor friends. Not like some who are most lavish with those who are able to give most of them.
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True happiness consists in being considered deserving of it.
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